The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 50

And instantly the handsome Prince Peerless became a poor little black Cricket, whose only idea would have been to find himself a cosy cranny behind some blazing hearth, if he had not luckily remembered the Fairy Douceline’s injunction to seek the Golden Branch.

Who acts: handsome Peerless, idea, Peerless, Fairy Douceline · What happens: become, find, be, blaze, not remember, seek · To what, where: poor little black Cricket, Peerless, cosy cranny, blazing hearth, injunction, Golden Branch

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome Peerless, idea, Peerless, Fairy Douceline), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	7 became	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Peerless	det
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Peerless	amod
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Peerless	nmod:desc
6	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Cricket	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Cricket	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Cricket	amod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Cricket	amod
12	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cranny	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 idea	nmod:poss
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 idea	advmod
16	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cranny	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cranny	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 cranny	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 cranny	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cranny	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 find	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cranny	det
24	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cranny	amod
25	cranny	cranny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Cricket	appos
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 hearth	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 hearth	det
28	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hearth	amod
29	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cranny	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 remembered	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 remembered	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 remembered	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 remembered	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 remembered	advmod
35	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	36 remembered	advmod
36	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 became	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Douceline	det
38	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Douceline	compound
39	Douceline	Douceline	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 injunction	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 Douceline	case
41	injunction	injunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 remembered	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 seek	mark
43	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 remembered	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Branch	det
45	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Branch	amod
46	Branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seek	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the handsome Peerless Prince	a poor little black Cricket		instantly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	a cosy cranny's idea not said here	Peerless			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	is a	would · perfect	a cosy cranny's idea	a cosy cranny	some blazing hearth		tree rules
4	blaze	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not remember a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Peerless	the Fairy Douceline's injunction		luckily property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent injunction=Theme
6	seek	to-infinitive	Peerless not said here	the Golden Branch			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
7	enjoin		the Fairy Douceline				nom injunction «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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